The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-08-06
BTOadbPim'S New York Letter

Political Economists from Adam Smith TO
crime, the general inference being, that If
you abolish poverty you lay the foundations
of an Arcadian temple, where all the wor-
shippers are good. where sin is unknown,
and the evils and ills that men suffer and
have suffered for ages disappear as the hoar
frost vanishes in the beams OF the morning
sun. So Henry George and Doctor Nc
Glynn have seriously addressed themselves
of making every mortal, man and woman.
an equal shareholder in the riches of the
earth.
In order TO start the business fair, meet
ings have been held at one of the most ex-
pensive theatres in town, the Academy Of
Music. and In few nights between five
and six thousand dollars were collected
Over thousand dollars went for rent cover
two thousand was paid to Henry Georges
printing office, The STANDARD. for tracts
and bills; five hundred dollars were ex-
pended IN booming Doctor McGlynn, and
the rest Of II went In one way and another,
carriage hire not being one of the smallest
items, so that the bulk of the five Thousand
dollars collected Mt The Anti-Povcrts meet
ing has gone where the woOdbine twincth.
But it does not follow Ms logical Sc
ish crime. The boodle Aldermen we sent
TO States Prison were all very well to do.
Fish. the thieTIng banker, was almost a
millionaire, aud Ferdinand Ward had all
the good things Of earth and rrjoiaed in
gold galore; Bnddenseik, the mnrtlerons
| builder, was worth n half million; and
Jacob Sharp could sign his check for at
least couple Of millions; the President of
of the Fidelity Bank lived on tie fatness of
the land; and lastly comes General Cutting,
who is now before The court for having de-
| frauded his own brothers and sisters of
nearly two millions of dollars.
| A queer case that of Cuttings which, II
it were not for the old blue blood of the
family, would SAVIOR very lnuch of vulgar
robbery. Among those who have high
seats in the inner sanhedrim of fashion, we
haye nothing that rates higher than the
| Cuttings; the Astors are rich and so are
the Vanderbilts, and the same might be
said of the Goelets the Jones and the
Hammersleys, and hundred others: but
when il comes to the real old blue blood
that antedates the Revolution Cuttings
claim precedence oil them all. Francis b.
Cuttihg uled some years ago leaving for
tune OF several millions to be divided
among his children his eldest son Gen.
"lI'iam d. Cut'lhs was appointed executor
10 administer the trust, ana at the time no
one doubted ms ahllitY or honesty, but as
Tue years ro'lea on IL seemed impossible to
seV q settlement and his widowed sister-in-
laW' VINO WAS abroad with her children,
ana VINO was 10 nave received over hall
mililoh oi dollars from the estate found
So'le OF "eneral C"'tlhg drafts protested
WNich ne ilad sent her 10 pay her expenses
III EUROPE MRS cutting hurried over from
Europe' an investigation was ordered and
Che result was the discovery OF deficit OF
nearly TWO millions OF dollars. The allega-
uohs MADE by the heirs appear TO be sns'
tained ny the investigation, and while the
heirs may not leei desirous OF prosecuting
MN lor iamllY reasons, there is no doubt
that suihcient has been discovered to land
ms arlslocratlc millionaire behind the bars
oil the states prison.
| am quite willing to admit with Mr.
George that poverty is not a desirable con
dition; but do not accent AS final the die.
tum, that crime would disappear if poverty
were abolished, or that il Is possible 10
abolish it by the financial system inaupnr.
lated by Mr.. George, when five or six
thousand dollars are collected IN five or six
weeks, and every penny of II snent excent
eighty-nine dollars, and Progress and Pow.
erty are as far apart as ever. In all of the
large sum collected not one penny for dis.
tribution among the poor: not a mill fo,
the seaside homes where the sick and
ragged waits of this great citv oct n month,
full of Gods nure air away from, thoi,
homes IN the slums. There are men and
women here nv the bupsrals who ho,,
never been inside onti-oovertv nee,inos Inn,
who do more in n week to assuaoo ,'a cor
rows and evils of novor,v ,hon H.,
George and his noisv adiu,ors hora do,,'
in all their lives They waste mn timo r.
theories and talk. thev act and 70 ,hai,
honor he il said thar ovorv ,onnn a,,h
scribed is disbnrsed wi,hou, oos, -. 49,
m,ssion m ,ha noor and ,ho 49,. ,,o,' -.
TO bless them Iftbo chndrep of ,ovor,,
Wapl to hear the snost,e of Ar,i-n,ror,, :.
Rrooklvp this veot ,hav n,n 49, 40 -,
TWENTY-FIVE cents for tho n,,v,,ano a.
weeks aoo Won coulJ hoar Cor nothina ,ia,
II cost five cents ot,erwords :, rnsn - ,o,,
now n cos,s orartar. ~ Co.. - ~ - :.
the th,ng imnroyos ha MIN ~ -. :,
half dollor "a h, ~ - ~